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Jared Hess
Jared Hess
Legend
August 23, 2017
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How do I get a text caption (or success caption) to appear more than once; also how do I keep it visible until they click off of it?

  • August 23, 2017
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I'm a Captivate neophyte. I'm using version 9.02.437.

I'm trying to do a training simulation.

The user needs to click through certain menus and buttons on dialog boxes to complete it. But rather than display a generic failure message, I want to actually teach the user on a failure. So if a user clicks on a UI elment, it  shows something like this:

And so on for the diff UI elements on the screen.

I got all that working. I have multiple click boxes for different UI elements. They don't continue the slide show. They only show their success messages for each click box.

It works, but I have two problems:

1) Rather than use a timer, I'd like the success text box to remain visible until the user clicks off of it. Right now, it fades after the specified amount of time.

2) The success message only shows once. I need the text box to show again if the user clicks again on the same click box.

Thank you in advance for any tips you can offer.

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    You should have a look at my blog post about the mystery of the 3 eye buttons because you used the wrong one.

    To hide an object when published you need to use the button in the Properties panel.  Timeline eye button only hides for editing reasons, no effect on the output.

    Another approach, probably better, is to group all the text containers to be hidden on a slide, the use the Hide command on the On Enter event for the slide.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    August 23, 2017

    You will have to use a custom text container (shape or caption) that is initially hidden and will be shown using the Success event of the Click box. You can add a close button or use a hyperlink character to close the text container. Have a look at:

    More is in a...hyperlink - Close button - Captivate blog

    Both your requirements will now be available. Do not forget to uncheck the default Failure message since it is now replaced by the custom text container. Maybe you also have to reflect on what has to happen if all texts is shown at the same time?

    Jared Hess
    Jared HessAuthor
    Legend
    August 23, 2017

    Thanks Lilybiri. That's a start. I created custom text captions and have them setup to show when the click box is clicked. But I'm having issues getting the custom text captions to start hidden. I've set their visiblity to hidden in the Timeline.

    Is there something else I need to do?

    The second the preview starts playing, they all appear.

    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
    Legend
    August 23, 2017

    You should have a look at my blog post about the mystery of the 3 eye buttons because you used the wrong one.

    To hide an object when published you need to use the button in the Properties panel.  Timeline eye button only hides for editing reasons, no effect on the output.

    Another approach, probably better, is to group all the text containers to be hidden on a slide, the use the Hide command on the On Enter event for the slide.

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